I felt that seeing as Halloween was such a popular holiday here, I needed to figure out a costume for the Halloween parties that I would be attending. I have a pair of pleather pants, so I figured I'd be catwoman. I found a cool tutorial on pinterest for how to make a masquerade mask, so I made one all black for catwoman.
This is a picture of the mask I made in the process of drying. I cut up a cheap shirt that I bought at DI and then used puffy paint to make cool designs. The results were pretty good!
Unfortunately, at the Halloween dance, masks were not allowed, so I had to paint one on instead. It looked okay, but not as good as the real mask. And, while I'm speaking about the dance, I just want to complain about how I got kicked out. They told me that my outfit was inappropriate, and I could understand if it was because my pants were too tight or something, but no, it wasn't because they were too tight, it's because they were pleather. I was told that I was not allowed to wear pleather pants because pleather has a bad connotation. Girls wearing just leggings were fine, but I had to go change because apparently wearing pleather makes you a harlot or something here at BYU. Also, another thing I saw at the dance was a lady trying to kick out a guy for wearing a kilt because she said he was cross-dressing. He managed to win his case by arguing that a kilt is technically a man's article of clothing, so he was doing no such thing. The lady seemed reluctant to let him go back to the dance floor, but then finally agreed that he was fine when other students started backing him up and saying that he should be allowed to wear a kilt without being told he was cross-dressing.
Now, for actual Halloween. I did not wear a costume around campus to classes, but many people did. I saw Frodo, quite a few Waldos, many Batmans, a lot of nerds, a weeping angel, the tenth doctor from Doctor Who, power rangers, teenage mutant ninja turtles, Santa, Buddy the Elf, Black Widow, Captain America, some golden sea creature fish thing, and a bunch of stuff that I wasn't sure what they were supposed to be, mostly it was girls with teased up hair and a lot of makeup and prom dresses....maybe some kind of zombie princess? I don't know, but there were a lot of them.
Then at the nighttime, I wore my costume; pleather pants and mask and all, because it looked too good to not wear. I just had to avoid any authoritative looking figures that might tell me that I needed to change because they have an issue with pleather. During visiting hours, Kayla and I went to Ryan's room with some other people and we had a classy Martinelli's party, drinking sparkling cider out of crystal wine glasses. We felt very fancy.
Here are Kayla and I! I'm catwoman and she's a country cowgirl.
Ryan was just himself for Halloween. He did enjoy acting fancy while drinking his sparkling cider though.
Adam was the Doppler Effect for Halloween.
After that, Ryan had a pumpkin that was half-frozen that he wanted to do something with, so we went pumpkin bowling out on the basketball court. Unfortunately, the pumpkin thawed rather quickly and didn't work as a bowling ball for long, so Ryan started seeing how high he could throw it in the air.
And the pumpkin kind of just mushed everywhere, but the good news is that all the splatters were only the ice melting, and the pumpkin stayed in mostly just large chunks which were then disposed of.
Later, we went over to the Cannon Center where they were holding a dance-off for all the RAs in the dorms. I'm proud to say that my RA was in the group that won! And guess what! This time nobody in the Cannon Center told me that I couldn't wear my mask or my pleather pants, so I feel very accomplished!
Another note about this week. Helaman Halls started a giant game of Humans vs Zombies. It is so much fun! We have 200 people playing, and on monday we started with 3 original zombies. They have to tag the humans to turn them into zombies. I made it for 42 hours as a human before I got ambushed by a group of zombies. I had no idea that zombies could run so fast! Now I need to tag a human before I die. Zombies have to tag a human every 48 hours or else they starve and die. Too many of the humans are cheating though. They just sit in their rooms all day! Or they go to a big Helaman Halls activity and take off their wristband so that nobody knows they're a human. Tonight the number of zombies passed the number of humans, so the zombies are beginning to win!
Well, that was my Halloween!
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